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NASA recruits crew for year-long Moon and Mars simulation
Volunteers will live in two confined habitats while researchers test people, hardware and mission systems.
New platform creates digital map for marine biobanks
A new digital platform from CIIMAR centralises Portugal's marine biological resources to accelerate research and industrial applications in biotechnology, aquaculture, and health.
Geoscientists reveal how Earth's forces are shaping the 'Roof of the World'
International geoscientists have identified deep-Earth processes as the primary driver behind the unique topography of the Tibetan Plateau, known as the Roof of the World.
What China's Successful Rocket Launch Means for the Future of the Space Race
China has rapidly evolved from a space novice into the primary competitor challenging American dominance across the solar system.
F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry
A startup won FCC approval to test a space mirror that could illuminate a three-mile patch of night sky.
Dust in the wind: intense storms struck China, US in 2025, says UN
UN reports severe sand and dust storms struck China and the US in 2025.
She Studied Ways to Make People Smarter. Then Her Grant Was Cut.
A research program investigating spatial problem-solving skills was abruptly terminated following the cancellation of its U.S. Navy grant.
Unified Face Attack Detection via Fine-Grained Semantic Guidance
Researchers propose a new method to detect AI-generated face attacks using fine-grained semantic guidance and 8 million attack images.
Why Ho Chi Minh City's Air Pollution Sources Were Misread for Years
The chemical used to track biomass burning in Ho Chi Minh City's air may have led to years of inaccurate pollution source readings.
Richard Scolyer, Melanoma Expert Who Treated His Own Brain Tumor, Dies at 59
Australian melanoma researcher Richard Scolyer publicly documented his own brain tumor treatment, applying his cancer expertise to his own care, before dying at 59.
NASA satellite tracks record US wildfire season from orbit
With a record number of acres already burned this North American fire season, NASA's PACE satellite is monitoring smoke plumes and fire-prone vegetation.
NASA tests a coupling device for refueling spacecraft in Earth orbit
NASA has tested a special nozzle-like coupling designed to transfer propellant to spacecraft in Earth orbit before deep-space missions depart.
The Most Valuable Artemis II Instrument Was Not a Camera: It Was the Human Eye
The Artemis II crew's most valuable scientific tool on their far-side moon journey in April was not any camera or sensor: it was the trained human eye.
Burned bones push human fire use back 1.8 million years, to Homo erectus
Burned bones from Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa suggest Homo erectus was using fire 1.8 million years ago, nearly doubling the oldest known evidence.
NASA picks 41 private-sector proposals to advance Moon and Mars technology
NASA selected 41 proposals from 37 American companies to develop space transportation, lunar operations, and planetary surface technologies.
ESA's Euclid telescope images the Milky Way's core ahead of NASA's Roman launch
ESA's Euclid telescope has imaged the heart of the Milky Way, targeting the same region NASA's Roman Space Telescope will observe after its launch this summer.
The TP53 variant that gives carriers a near-certain lifetime cancer risk
Tracy Hutchinson has a rare TP53 gene variant that gives her an extreme risk of cancer developing anywhere in her body.
Webb's 223-megapixel portrait of the Cigar Galaxy took 65 hours to capture
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged 16.5 million stars in the Cigar Galaxy, 12 million light-years away, in a 223-megapixel composite.
How a Murray River flood fed the ocean thousands of kilometres away
The 2022-23 Murray River floods sent thousands of tonnes of organic material into the ocean, triggering a marine feeding bonanza.
Ankle exoskeleton designed to disengage when it encounters unknown movements
Researchers developed an uncertainty-aware control framework for ankle exoskeletons that automatically switches off when it detects movements outside its training data.
The ML Trick That Lets Weather Models Admit Their Own Uncertainty
Researchers applied conformal prediction, a machine learning technique, to weather forecasting, generating forecast ranges with a user-specified confidence level.
Researchers fix Empirical Bayes' hidden weakness with a new ML hybrid estimator
A new mixed estimator blends Empirical Bayes and maximum likelihood, guaranteeing it is never worse than either at second-order risk.
Robots can rehearse forgotten tasks using AI-generated memory replays
REGEN lets a robot policy rehearse previously mastered tasks by generating synthetic visual trajectories, removing the need to store original human demonstrations.
Open-source AI models carry internal emotion structures like Claude
Researchers replicated emotion vectors found in Claude Sonnet 4.5 in two open-weight models, recording valence correlations of r=0.76 and r=0.83.
Why the most confident AI answer isn't always the most accurate one
New research finds the link between an AI model's output probability and its correctness is inconsistent across methods, models, and prompts.
Why are only female Homo naledi bones found deep in South African caves?
Fossilized Homo naledi bones found deep in South African caves lack a key genetic male marker, suggesting only females were buried there.
NASA and Small Business Administration to partner on US space growth
NASA and the US Small Business Administration will sign an agreement on June 29 to launch an initiative supporting growth of the American space industry.
Botswana Becomes 68th Artemis Accords Signatory and 6th African Nation
Botswana signed the Artemis Accords at a NASA ceremony, becoming the sixth African nation to join the 68-signatory space transparency pact.
Rocket Lab Wins NASA Contracts to Launch Two Science Satellites
NASA selected Rocket Lab to launch both its PolSIR ice-cloud radiometer and its TSIS-2 solar irradiance sensor under a fixed-price contract program.
A total solar eclipse crosses parts of Europe in August 2026
This August a total solar eclipse tracks across parts of Europe, while a partial eclipse extends to roughly a quarter of the world.
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